When talking about Xin Qiji, many people’s first impression is that he is a great poet, who wrote many poems that we are familiar with, including "The bright moon leaves the branch and the magpies are frightened by the breeze," which describes the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. "Cicadas chirping in the middle of the night," and "Watching swords while drunk with a lamp burning in the air, blowing horns in a dream" are also expressions of fighting on the battlefield; in his poems, there are tender words like water, "I searched for him thousands of times in the crowd, but suddenly I looked back, and that person was there. "In the dim light, there are also those who express that they have no way to serve the country." Who can ask, whether Lian Po is old enough to still be able to earn a living?"...
After reading these poems with different styles, people can't help but ask, What kind of person is Xin Qiji, and what kind of experience does he have? Now let’s get closer to the most hard-core “Young and Dangerous” of the Song Dynasty, the battlefield poet-Xin Qiji.
We usually use the phrase "literary skills can bring peace to the world with pen, military skills can immediately determine the world" to describe a person who is capable of literary and military skills. Of course, such versatile talents in both civil and military affairs are rare. The more famous one is Wang Yangming , Guo Ziyi and others, and Xin Qiji can definitely be counted as one.
The story of Xin Qiji can be told from the 31st year of Shaoxing. In that year, the Jin Wan Yanliang led his troops to invade the south on a large scale, and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty rose up to resist. Xin Qiji, who was only 21 years old at the time, gathered a team of 2,000 people to join Geng Jing's rebel army. Although Xin Qiji was very young at that time, he fought bravely, was brave and resourceful, and was proficient in the art of war, and he soon became the backbone of Geng Jing's rebel army.
At this time, although Xin Qiji was the leader of the rebel army, he was a civilian organization and had no military membership. He was more like a "young and Dangerous boy" with thousands of younger brothers. He followed the eldest brother Geng Jing and relied on his Defend your homeland with passion.
In the 32nd year of Shaoxing, Xin Qiji was ordered to go south to contact the Southern Song Dynasty court. Unexpectedly, a traitor named Zhang Anguo appeared in the army. He killed Geng Jing, the leader of the rebel army, surrendered to the Jin people, and was therefore arrested. He was granted an official position and rewarded heavily, and the Shandong rebel army collapsed.
After hearing the news, Xin Qiji did not choose to escape. Instead, he led more than fifty brothers to rush into the enemy line of tens of thousands of people, kidnapped the traitor Zhang Anguo who was enjoying a good life, and escorted him back to the Southern Song Dynasty court thousands of miles away. , handed over to the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty for rectification. It can be said that even TV dramas would not dare to act out such a fantasy plot, but it was a miracle achieved by Xin Qiji, and he became famous for it.
Xin Qiji performed so brilliantly that it stands to reason that the Southern Song Dynasty court should reuse him and let him lead troops to fight against the Jin army. However, Song Gaozong only gave him a position as a judge in Jiangyin. Such a small local official, with Xin Qiji's fame at that time was very unmatched.
Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, admired Xin Qiji very much and praised him as a "young hero", but why didn't he entrust him with important tasks? First of all, Xin Qiji's identity is rather embarrassing. He is a "reformed man" from the occupied northern area, and his loyalty has been questioned by some people. Xin Qiji's grandfather Xin Zan also served in the Jin Kingdom. In this way, he could easily clear his identity as a reformer.
The embarrassment of status is only one aspect. Xin Qiji's radical main war thinking was also inconsistent with the peace advocates at the time. The Southern Song Dynasty court was peaceful, and most officials advocated peace for their own interests. The radical Xin Qiji was naturally marginalized, so the Southern Song Dynasty court did not let him lead the army, but sent him to be a local official.
So Xin Qiji began his transfer journey. Xin Qiji was sent to Xuzhou, Jiangxi, and Hunan wherever they were poorer and where there was banditry, and Xin Qiji could always do things in an orderly manner. A poor, war-torn place like Zhouzhou was flourishing, and banditry in Jiangxi was eliminated in three months...According to statistics, Xin Qiji was transferred nearly 40 times, and each official position lasted for two years or as short as a few months. He became a member of the Southern Song Dynasty court. A brick can be moved wherever it is needed.
In the seventh year of Chunxi, Xin Qiji obtained the emperor's permission and founded the "Flying Tiger Army" in Hunan, which became the most courageous army on the Yangtze River border. The Jin soldiers also retreated after hearing this. However, because the army expanded too quickly and exceeded the budget by a large amount, Xin Qiji was impeached and dismissed from office the next year, and stayed idle for twenty years.
Although Xin Qiji was later reactivated by the Southern Song Dynasty court, he was still not reused. Moreover, Xin Qiji was already old at that time, and his dream of resisting the Jin Dynasty came to nothing, and he could only die in depression.
In his idle days, Xin Qiji wrote many poems expressing pastoral scenery, folk customs, and insights from reading. The world has lost a strong general, but has gained a literary giant. For Xin Qiji, He is depressed and unable to serve his country, but for future generations, isn't it a blessing?